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The game script is different from the novel, and there is more to consider. In the game, it is not just a straightforward story to tell the whole story, but often needs to dig into more unfinished words in the original game.

But now Xingze and Feixin have such a position, so although Xingze tried it, he still didn't ask the original author to participate in the writing of the copy. The other party did not refuse sternly, but tactfully expressed that he was busy with work and had no time to take care of anything else.

However, even if the original author has no intention of assisting in the completion of the copywriting, the work that is being changed will still need to be continued, and will not be changed because of the presence or absence of the original author.

Writing copywriting for an open system is far more complicated and cumbersome than writing a copy for a stand-alone or online game, because an open system often requires a certain amount of white space in the plot to facilitate the loading or removal of new modules and new characters. This requires copywriters to leave more leeway when writing the plot and not limit some conditions to death.

In this case, there are obviously more things to consider when writing a copy.

However, most of the employees in the planning department have been trained for most of the previous six months and nearly a year. Although the ARPG (Action Role Playing Game) version of the engine has changed in many ways compared to the previous SIM (simulation game) version of the engine, fortunately, there are no changes in the rules of plot connection and number transfer.

They are all people who have written a lot of copy, and the workload of each working day in the past is probably not much worse than that of some online writers, but the intermediate review process is far more complicated than that of online writers, and almost all of them are cross-reviewed.

What is more complicated is the alteration and restoration of the original.

As mentioned before, adapting a game script is not just a matter of casually deleting and altering the original novel. Adapting a novel into a game, especially into a game mod that will work with future engines, requires at least a number of steps, and there are a few things that must be done:

1. Establish the character settings of all the plot characters, including the characters that may not be perfect in the original book. Unlike novels, games don't need a lot of white space, but they need more content for players to dig into. When the author writes a plot and a character, he may only have a vague image and positioning in his heart, but the game copywriter has to carefully make up a character that conforms to this image positioning, and may also make up some dialogues or interactive events that do not exist in the original work, otherwise that person is not a conscious and conscious person in the story, but just a plot that is locked at the beginning and end;

Second, the story is destined to have only one ending, but the people who make the game can't let it have only one ending. Because for players, what they did and what they didn't do, and those who have carefully studied the plot and those who have not, should be different. The most important thing in the game is actually a sense of substitution, and only when the player can take charge of their own destiny can they really enter the game, not just read a story and watch a plot. At the meeting, Bai Miao talked about classics, but in fact, she was not talking about classic games, but classic "stories". In Lin Shu's view, such classics can actually be done in novels, film and television, and they don't need to be pinned on games, and stories and games should be different. Of course, how to open up a new route in line with the plot of the original book is actually a difficult problem. The best choice is, of course, to collaborate with the original author to discuss the design, just like when "Smoke and Rain Dark Thousand Homes", but unfortunately Xingze does not have this choice at present, so he has to let everyone in the planning department worry more;

3. The game that has been added to the AI should actually be more flexible, so it should not be like any previous game, but should choose a table that can perfectly use or even highlight the functions of AI. At this point, although Tianqing Niang is composed of computer numbers jù, it still follows human logic and Chinese communication rules, so in the end, the main thinking logic library still needs copywriters and a few copywriters to sort out and summarize.

The original story of "Legend of Destiny" was originally a more traditional and less logical upgrade stream, but if Xingzawa just made it into a story, it would not be in line with the original intention of the engine system.

Therefore, the planners not only have to separate and expand the plot, but also draw out the appropriate characters in the whole story, become the protagonist's teammates, and even the target of the strategy. They need to restore a flat story into a three-dimensional world...... So naturally it's going to be busy.

Lin Shu has been paying attention to the script of "Legend of Destiny" for the rest of the time, watching the planners separate every force in the story, every character with a role, and every location, and then slowly fill in the details that did not appear in the original book, write history for the forces, write life experiences for the characters, and design cultural styles for the locations......

These things are easy to say, but to really do them meticulously and outstandingly, it takes not only time, but also effort.

There is a saying that "art comes from life, but it is higher than life...... When most people say this, they emphasize the second half of the sentence, but in fact, the first half of the sentence is also very important.

Because it comes from the art of life, it is not rootless duckweed; The art based on life is the art that contains the heart and soul, and can move people's hearts.

Whether it's a story, a movie, a movie, or a game, if it also has three realms, then Lin Shu thinks that the first realm should be integrated into life, that is, although it is a fabricated story, but you experience it as if you were experiencing a life, and there is no disobedience; The second realm should be to meet life, whether it is a reader, an audience, or a player, although experiencing a story is actually outside the story, the story itself is a mirror, a reflection of everyone's life, through guò This mirror, you see your desires, but also your shortcomings. The ancients said that "if you don't go out, you can know the world", which is actually how people can increase their experience and learn the truth in books and texts; The third realm is to feel life and beauty. The reason why art is higher than life is because art can sublimate people's feelings, and process and sublimate the air, sunlight, and water into "beauty" as far as your eyes can see, what you hear, and what you taste on the tip of your tongue.

In fact, this kind of beauty has always been there, but sometimes it takes a little processing before you can really feel it.

For the current Xingze, if you work hard, you can achieve the first realm, and if you work hard, you can achieve the second realm...... But to achieve the third point, talent, luck and inspiration are indispensable.

On this day, when Lin Shu went to the planning department to pay attention to the progress, he seemed to suddenly notice that the various reference books of the planning department had been piled up on several tables, and they were about to be unable to put it down. He pondered for a moment with a group of young men and women at work, and then made a decision.

At present, the staff of the copywriting team of Xingze Planning Department are all young men and women in their twenties with excellent writing skills, the oldest is 27 years old, and the average age is no more than 25 years old.

The reason for this configuration is that it is difficult to have both talent and experience. Talented and experienced authors have long been famous, and now the world is very open, and there is really nothing that is not encountered. People who really have the ability can get ahead as long as they are flexible, and those who can't get ahead after working for more than ten or twenty years are always deficient in ability or mentality.

On the contrary, young people are more malleable, and Xingze can also afford salary expenses.

Most of these young people are graduates of the Chinese department, but this year, the Chinese department is like the Hufflepuff House at Hogwarts, and there are relatively few people who really study "literature" instead of being passively or actively transferred.

There is no shortage of young people who are impulsive for their ideals, so the batch of copywriters recruited by Xingze are at least the kind of young men and women who have deep writing skills and are full of enthusiasm for writing creation. It's hard to say whether this enthusiasm will fade in the future, but at least it's still burning for now.

However, young people also have the disadvantage of young people, that is, their experience is often more limited. While there may be many benefits to reading a lot of books, there are still some gaps compared to some mature writers. In this case, Lin Shu's approach collects a large amount of information, and then allows the copywriters to broaden their knowledge and deepen their experience as a reference.

Because the next work to be adapted "Legend of the Mandate of Heaven" is a Xiuzhen novel built with the Tang Dynasty as the background, so the planning department has recently spent money to buy a large number of reference materials, "Zizhi Tongjian" and "History of the Tang Dynasty" and other historical books are naturally indispensable, but "Tang Dynasty Customs Research", "Tea Scripture", "Tang Dynasty Western Regions" and other research materials, "Mirror Flower Yuan", "Journey to the East", "Three Words and Two Beats" and other legends of Zhiwei are also indispensable.

In addition, Lin Shu also referred to the opinions of many people and collected a number of more distinctive literary works of cultivation, especially some works with a similar style to "Legend of the Mandate of Heaven", so that everyone can appreciate and analyze their advantages and disadvantages, and then learn their advantages and avoid the mistakes made by others.

At this time, the number of employees in Xingze has exceeded three digits, and Lin Shu should also consider reorganizing the functions of various departments of the company.

But before that, he first asked Zheng Fangcheng to allocate a sum of money, and then rebuilt and renovated the floors that were currently vacant - the office building currently rented out some floors, but reserved some space for the time being, just to facilitate future expansion - and then separated the planning department, the technical department, the customer service department and other departments and occupied a floor each.

After that, the planning department will occupy a floor on its own, and the planning team and the copywriting team will be separated, but an area will be isolated on the same floor as a library, and the decoration of the office will also be changed.

After Zheng Fangcheng heard Lin Shu's thoughts, he was stunned for a moment and said, "Fantasy style? ”

Lin Shu shook his head and said: "It's not to be a complete fantasy style, but I want the decoration to be more fantasy style, and the most important thing is to have a human touch and cultural atmosphere, don't make it as simple and rigid as it is now." ”

Lin Shu saw that Zheng Fangcheng didn't understand, so he continued to explain: "I still like the current atmosphere of the company, it is more energetic, and everyone is self-motivated. But now that there are more and more people, I think it's almost time to realign and sort out the functions of the department. I would like to take this opportunity to build a corporate culture as well. After all, this is the core of a company. ”

"So in terms of decoration, I also want to integrate the cultural core. For the decoration of the planning department, I hope to have a humanistic atmosphere, and give all planning and copywriting a comfortable and inspirational environment. As for the decoration of the technical department, I hope to have a sci-fi style, preferably clean and neat at the same time, but also give people a sense of joy. ”

"I don't want the company's decoration to be magnificent, but I don't want it to look rigid and lifeless." Lin Shu said, "We can not be a big-name company, but we must not be a company that has lost its humanistic feelings." ”

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Zheng Fangcheng was aroused by Lin Shu's words - the term corporate culture has always existed, but many medium-sized companies in China may not be able to do it, and to put it bluntly, it is cost.

Shaping corporate culture requires a lot of cost, and many small and medium-sized business owners may not know the benefits of shaping a corporate culture for themselves, but stop at the cost.

In fact, there are two ways to form corporate culture, one is naturally formed - just like the current state of Xingze's current high-level management, choose the right person, the right job, and then a group of people are condensed together with ideals or ambitions, which will naturally form a corporate culture, which is a corporate culture spread by the principal in a team with their own behaviors and concepts.

And when the scale of the enterprise reaches a certain level, this practice is often not good. Because the scope of a person's natural influence purely by his own words and deeds is actually very limited, at this time, it is necessary to spend manpower and material resources to establish and guide the development of corporate culture, so that such an atmosphere can be cohesive and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

The means to promote the formation of corporate culture are also very simple, which is nothing more than spiritual guidance, material encouragement, activity organization and atmosphere shaping.

The average enterprise will say what our corporate culture is, but when it comes to behavior, most of them are inevitably superficial, and cannot really form a trend of thought in the whole enterprise. The reason for this is very simple, but it is reluctant to pay the cost.

So Zheng Fangcheng was very curious about Lin Shu's words - it was not surprising that he had already made such a request to Lin Shu, after all, he had seen a lot of Lin Shu's peculiarities, and without three or three, Lin Shu would not be able to manage Xingze to this point, nor would he be able to convince Zheng Fangcheng of him.

Lin Shu has Liang Yuehua and the Liang family behind him, and Ju Mingfeng has Cui Wenxin and Jia Jia behind him, no matter how many business things these two children know, Zheng Fangcheng will not make a fuss now.

But Zheng Fangcheng was still curious about Lin Shu's plans and wanted to know how he planned to establish a corporate culture.

He asked, "Since we talk about corporate culture, what exactly do we plan to set our corporate culture to look like?" ”

Lin Shu didn't sell it, and said, "I've already thought about this." 'Creativity lights up life, technology leads the times'. What do you think? ”

This is actually the cultural theme of Xingze in the past. Creativity and technology are the core that Lin Shu has always insisted on, and Lin Shu has not changed the meaning of this core theme until this week, so he said it very casually at this time.

Zheng Fangcheng listened, thought about it for a while, and felt that it was not bad, so he said: "The core is understood, the creativity and technology are right, the point is quite clear." ”

Lin Shu replied: "In fact, life and the times are also the focus. I think the best culture and entertainment should be able to enjoy life and lead the times. ”

Zheng Fangcheng asked: "So what are the specific requirements for decoration?" Are there any other requirements? ”

Lin Shu said: "I want the decoration style to be as casual as possible, and in addition, the design of the whole office must be convenient for communication and discussion, and at the same time, it must be equipped with some basic related facilities, such as a small blackboard newspaper rack...... By the way, don't forget to have plenty of potted plants in all offices. In addition, it is better to choose a streamlined style for some furniture, not to give people a feeling of being too square and rigorous. ”

"The technical department also wants to design like this?"

Lin Shu said: "The style of the technical department is ...... Think about it. I don't have any ideas about how to design it, but I want the overall atmosphere to be a little more lively and not depressing. Programming is already a lot of work, so it's best to design the environment to be a little lighter and brighter. ”

Then he put forward some other requirements, Zheng Fangcheng wrote them down one by one, and then asked people to design and decorate the new office according to his requirements.

When we moved to the new location, the employees in several departments were almost crazy. After the final renovation, the two offices of the planning department are large offices with white walls and various beige art shelves, art desks and green potted plants. Everyone has their own desk and computer, but it's not a cubicle-style desk, it's a beautiful streamlined computer desk with its own bookshelves and potted cactus. At the same time, there is a circle of white sofas on one side of the office around a large round coffee table, which looks like a salon-like half circle, which looks very beautiful.

The technical department is still the same as the usual cubicle shape, but the original plastic cubicle has now become a glass cubicle, and it is also equipped with potted plants, the difference is that a cork board is hung in front of each computer desk, which is used to hang various pictures or tables for the siege lions. What's even more exaggerated is the left and right walls that are not near the window - the left wall has now become a photo wall, hanging hundreds of neatly arranged photo frames, but all of them are blank for the time being, and only a few photo frames on the upper left have pictures in them.

But the picture is not anyone's photo, but a promotional image of the large-scale game mods produced by the future platform so far, and the label below the picture indicates the person in charge of each module and the people involved in the production.

On the wall to the right is a row of shelves, which are currently empty, with only a few items in place. Someone went over to take a look, picked up a hardcover booklet and looked at it, only to find that this booklet turned out to be Xingze's chronicle.

It has only been a year since Xingze was created, but this booklet has already filled in many pages, and many large and small things have been written down in the past year. The establishment and completion of both large and small projects, and the key development nodes of some websites...... They were all recorded one by one.

On the other side of the chronicle, there is a company-wide directory of employees. However, this thick employee directory does not record someone's birthday, age, address, or department position, but only by employee number.

Then the introduction of the planning department and the technical department recorded the project modules that everyone had participated in, the specific content of the modules, and the public evaluation of the modules after they were put on the shelves.

The customer service department is how many calls it receives each month, how many module reviews it has participated in, and the praise rate it has received.

At a glance, what content everyone has participated in research and development in the past year, or what work results they have had, are clearly listed.

The discovery of the booklet piqued the curiosity of many people, and everyone began to scramble to try to see their own work records, trying to find out about their past work achievements and those of their colleagues. People with excellent grades are naturally quite proud and excited, and people with average grades will inevitably be a little disappointed and vigilant.

After a long fuss, everyone finally settled into the new office.

Then Lin Shu announced another news that made many people feel quite excited. Lin Shu said that from this day on, the planning department and the technical department will always have candy and sweets, and the customer service department will always have balloons, which employees can go to pick up whenever they feel that they can no longer work.

This initiative immediately ushered in unanimous praise from all employees.

Lin Shu actually did this for a reason.

Excessive mental work actually consumes a lot of sugar, and when sugar is low, it is usually easy to cause fatigue and affect normal thinking. Therefore, most of the employees in the planning department and the technical department like to eat a little snack or something on weekdays, firstly, sugar can supplement mental consumption, and secondly, sweets themselves can also bring people a sense of pleasure, which is easier for people to maintain a good mood at work.

And the balloon in the customer service department is better understood. Being a customer service is a frustrating job, although most of the people who can stay in this position are people with good temperaments, but there are always times when I feel angry.

Lin Shu had to find a way for them to vent.

So simply provide balloons, so that the customer service can use guò to vent their anger and adjust their mood.

These two measures actually do not consume much daily expenses, but they can greatly reduce the pressure loss of employees and make the whole work process smoother, and Lin Shu has no reason not to do it.

But Zheng Fangcheng only felt that his little boss was simply terrible.

The two brochures and a photo wall almost quietly provoked everyone's sense of competition, and the renovation of the new office and the supply of candy balloons, although they added some costs, made everyone unconsciously feel close and grateful to him.

He didn't even add a penny to anyone's salary, nor did he say a word of agitation.

After that, Xingze's overall work efficiency has improved slightly, and Zheng Fangcheng actually has a hard time figuring out whether this is because of the sense of competition provoked by the photo wall and the employee report book, or the effect of Lin Shu's request for the plate of candy and balloons to be provided every day. As time passed, the development of the new engine became more and more progressive, and the participants had new inspirations and new design highlights every day.

The two groups of people in the planning department don't know if it's because of the excitement of the new office, or because the comfortable and bright environment really has the effect of inspiring, in short, new details or plot highlights appear every day in the recent game script. For example, the latest character in "Legend of Destiny" was drawn out, and the copywriting department set him a past that was enough to make the little girl shed tears and love, which was more touching than the original plot, which made Lin Shu stunned and quite amazing.

The original text of "Legend of Destiny" itself belongs to the kind of story with excellent structure and wonderful story, but the love is not very in-depth, and a kind of female copywriter makes up for this lack with her own strengths.

And the progress and growth of everyone in Xingze made Lin Shu obviously feel that he was moving towards the future.